[Samba] File permissions

[mjb at SRINC.biz]

So then explicit file permissions mean nothing?  After changing the parent 
directory to 770 and root.trusted, I was able to delete the file 
regardless of what the actual file permissions are.. 





"John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com> 
12/03/2008 12:00 PM

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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM,  <mjb at srinc.biz> wrote:
>
> 755 root.matt
>
> I changed that to 755 root.root and changed the file permissions to 770
> bek.trusted (matt is part of the 'trusted' group).  Now I can open the 
file,
> but can't delete it.. I expected to be able to open it and delete it..
>

Must have write permissions on the folder to delete.

John